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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    what's the latest you have slept?
    I slept at 11:30 PM last night; it’s not very late is it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf View Post
    Eugh, my friend Rosie is the same way. Nothing keeps you from falling asleep at 5:30 am like an inexplicably happy girl in the kitchen, making coffee and singing along to the radio.

    What time do you usually fall asleep, to wake up so early?
    Yep, that sounds like me!

    I usually go to bed around midnight or so - 6 hours sleep ain't too bad...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowqueen View Post
    I slept at 11:30 PM last night; it’s not very late is it?
    Nahhhh that is perfectly ok I guess, it depends on how tired you are I suppose.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf View Post
    I'm usually exactly the same way, except this year. This year I haven't been to university and have been working a weird job so I can count on my hand the number of times I've gone to bed before 12.



    I once slept for 21 hours. I was awake for about 72 hours, then I passed out at about 6pm on a sunday and woke up at 3pm on monday. It was a personal record, so I made a note of it.
    wow....were you partying because that would be three on a trot isn't it?
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    wow....were you partying because that would be three on a trot isn't it?
    I was working for this big 24 hour race thing that comes to town, it's called the Death Race and it's internationally famous among the racing community. My dad's the head of security, so he put me in an oversized yellow coat and plopped me down in a chair by a gate with a walkie talkie and a book, that was a boring day. Everyone who's moved away from town comes back for the Death Race, the locals treat it like a big reunion party, so yeah for the next two days I was pretty much just all over the place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kiki1982 View Post

    PS: Paul, I HATE cheerful risers! They make you feel so inadequate...
    Oh so would I, but I'm always the first up. So, in the greatest tradition of winders the world over, I flip the usual morning grumps and sing this tune whilst clattering the dishes. Wahey!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLhtvUU64xc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lokasenna View Post
    6 hours sleep ain't too bad...
    Wow, you have a good body. I can't stand to sleep for less than 8, and on average I sleep 10 hours a day. Sleeping 6 hours only would be to much of a strain on me.

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    When I was struggling with depression last year, and early this year, waking up in the morning became some sort of hell. I'd often sleep for 10-12 hours, and wake up feeling like I hadn't slept a minute.

    Now that life's coming together, it's getting easier to get out of bed. I'm still sluggish and half dead until I have my morning coffee and cigarette, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    I'm an annoyingly cheerful riser. In the week it's about 6-6.30 am, as i have lots of chores to do and i need to be at work for between 8 and 8.30.
    Me too. I usually pop out of bed around 5:30 - 6:00 am and greet the coming day with a cheery "Hello Day, Glad to me you".

    ok, maybe I just wake up around 5:30 - 6:00, but I am always the first one up. Even in college I'd stay out until all hours of the night and I'd still wake up early, at least by 7:00.
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander III View Post
    Wow, you have a good body. I can't stand to sleep for less than 8, and on average I sleep 10 hours a day. Sleeping 6 hours only would be to much of a strain on me.
    As you get older you sleep and need less.

    One odd consequence of this was that when Napoleon was marching his army back through Russia, the extreme cold killed younger men more often as they would fall into a deeper sleep and freeze to death more readily.

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    ^Funny you should mention cold nations. I read somewhere that Canadians sleep more in Winter, it's our biology because the darkness lasts much longer (the sun rises at about 9am and sets at about 4pm). That's true for me, I sleep for about ten hours in the winter, any less and I feel sick. I can't go for more than 24 hours without sleep without getting sick either. In the summer I wake up after about eight hours on a normal sleep pattern, and if I have to stay awake I can do 24 hours without even feeling it and can last for days before getting sick.
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    ^ I can tell ya that also holds true for those of us who grew up in southern latitudes and then moved north. (I lived in Alaska a while back) Driving into work at 5 or 6 in the morning during the summer I’d be anxious because the sun was already high in the sky and my subconscious told me I was late. In the winter, by contrast, I’d be fat-dumb-and-happy driving in at noon.
    Uhhhh...

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    How easy or difficult is it for you to get up?
    Hard to tell, because I just get up, that's all. If that happens at 5 am, (during the week), or a bit later (weekends) is of no significance: It is the waking up part that is the near death experience... Apparently, the morning paper cushions it a bit. I am not really awake when I get the paper, and by the time I have read it I usually am. I therefore conclude that waking up occurs while I'm reading it, and if said morning paper is late (I.e: my morning routine gets trashed) I get thoroughly peeved. Oh, I forgot to say that my alarm is set to 5 am, but I usually open my eyes a couple of minutes before it starts making noise.

    Of course, both getting up and waking up is a lot easier during the summer, with sunrise somewhere between 3 and 4 am.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lokasenna View Post
    I usually go to bed around midnight or so - 6 hours sleep ain't too bad...
    Likewise, and if I get the chance I catch a 15 minutes quick nap during lunch.

    Sometimes the pattern gets upset, of course. This last week is a case in point: We were audited by a very important customer, and I have spent a lot of time preparing for it in the last couple of months. So, last week I came to work at around 7 am and left at 8 pm. All went well, and now I'll unwind and stick to a more humane schedule again.

    Things like this are usually the reason when I don't post here for a while.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sancho View Post
    ^ I can tell ya that also holds true for those of us who grew up in southern latitudes and then moved north. (I lived in Alaska a while back) Driving into work at 5 or 6 in the morning during the summer I’d be anxious because the sun was already high in the sky and my subconscious told me I was late. In the winter, by contrast, I’d be fat-dumb-and-happy driving in at noon.
    That is confusing indeed although I am not clear about the afternoon bit.
    Do you mean you drove late thinking it was early?
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    I have trouble getting up in the mornings whether I had enough sleep or not. It's a will power thing.

    I usually go to bed around 23:30 and 00:30 and my alarm is set for 05:30 or 06:00. That's enough for me to be happy with, in fact, I usually wake up about an hour to half an hour before my alarm goes off. I'm wide awake then... I look at the clock, smile, turn around and sleep for another hour at least. I never really get up when my alarm goes off...I lie awake in bed and think about my day. If I do this long enough I fall asleep again, wake up with a start and shoot around like a rocket trying to get ready. I work flexi time, so that doesn't really encourage me to get out of the bed on time.

    And then, even if I'm wide awake, I'm still grumpy in the mornings. I feel overwhelmed by noise etc. easily and get irritated quickly. I'm a total night owl. Most nights I have to force myself to turn off the light because I'm not usually tired (or I get over the tiredness after a while...if that makes sense).

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